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Integrating Semantic Understanding and Textual Features for Fake News Detection Using Deep Learning

2025· article· W7131387506 on OpenAlexaff
Loubna Hussain Rashid Alajmi, Shadi Majed Alshraah, Yousaf Saeed, Muhammad Farrukh Khan, Amna Ilyas

Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisinformationMisinformationVariety (cybernetics)Deep learningSemantics (computer science)Social mediaArtificial neural networkDropout (neural networks)

Abstract

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The intensive technological change has triggered the introduction of significant changes in the channels of conveying and receiving information. Social media networks have become the leading ways of relaying information, that have the potential of reaching a large number of people within a short period of time. However, in the same breath, the same phenomenon has intensely boosted the spread of disinformation or what is popularly known as fake news, which has a reassuring impact on the sociocultural dynamics. The dissemination of fake news undermines the perceived integrity of sources of information, creating biased views and creating illusions about the relevant issues. Scholars and practitioners, in their turn, have increasingly applied the methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to come up with more effective solutions to detecting fake news. ML, a subdivision of AI that is focused on algorithm conception that derives predictive functionality of data, proved to be significantly successful in addressing a variety of challenges, such as detecting non-true content. This paper presents an efficient approach to prediction of misinformation through a fused deep-learning system based on semantic-analysis. The theory behind the suggested methodology will combine the concepts of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and will be aimed at analyzing the patterns of text and language arrangements, respectively. In addition, semantic analysis has also been integrated in order to increase the predictability by considering the semantic background and the contextual background of the textual substance being analyzed. The derived plan provides real-time tool of identifying false content, thus eliminating its negative impact on society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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